-: I have done things I never thought.
I've probably been to 43 or 44 states on business.
I traveled in the army, but everything was second class
and in a big green bag.
Always meeting new people, learning new things,
going to new places.
And now I don't travel as much,
but every day I talk to people
that I didn't know I was gonna talk to when I got up.
I learn things about what they do,
and I learn more about technology,
and we're becoming a more technologically driven world.
It's just,
it's like going mining for gold, that's what headhunting is.
I take my pic nats and my cup of coffee
and I start picking away
and things come out that I didn't expect.
I call it a quadruple or maybe a quintuple win.
So a win for the candidate if you get him a good job,
pay rate, short commute around the D.C. area.
Sometimes people take a step backwards financially
to not have that frustration of an hour and half each way,
especially if they have to cross the river
or have a tough commute.
But the deal is that with my job,
it isn't just the candidate or the hiring manager
or the contract itself and the organization
because these are billable positions,
every day that we don't fill them we're losing money
by not being able to, within that four or five year period,
have somebody take those seats
and actually being able to bill the customer.
But the other thing is it's the taxpayer.
The taxpayer is paying for all this.
So if we don't do this thing as smoothly
and swiftly as possible and make the right hires,
get the right people in there to fulfill these contracts
that are really necessary to protect the country
or deliver goods and services to the taxpayer,
then it's more than that if you look at the big picture.